EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강
1 언어의 준규칙성
We are able to speak and ____ language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so languages ____ be systematic rather than arbitrary.
However, the demands of comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility ____ speakers produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners must be able to comprehend them.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” ____ and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source words.
____ product of these conflicting pressures is quasiregularity.
These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve grown up speaking ____ language and become a fluent reader.
Mastering stress patterns is much harder for people learning English as a second language, who ____ exhibit “stress deafness.”
2 훌륭한 광고의 본질
We are able to speak and comprehend language with great skill ____ its quasiregularity — indeed, because of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, ____ so languages must be systematic rather than arbitrary.
However, the demands ____ comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility because speakers produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners must be able to comprehend them.
Many shortcuts that promote ____ speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source words.
The product ____ these conflicting pressures is quasiregularity.
These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, ____ is easy to obtain if you’ve grown up speaking a language and become a fluent reader.
Mastering stress patterns is much harder for people learning English ____ a second language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”
3 지구의 에너지 사용에 대한 인간의 진화
Life on our ____ can be arranged, more or less, into autotrophs and heterotrophs, organisms that exploit energy from the sun or chemical reactions, and organisms that take energy from those who’ve already captured it.
What is unusual about our ____ is that we’ve been able to use more and more energy without having to evolve into a different species.
We’ve achieved this through a combination of social learning, complex culture, and ____
We don’t have to speciate to gain the claws of an allosaurus; we ____ share information to design a warhead or a power station.
In ____ words, we change our tools rather than our bodies.
Fire and spears did the trick for hundreds of thousands of years, until we ____ the domestication of our food sources.
The next big shift came in the mechanisation of processes that gave us the Industrial ____
This enabled us to draw ancient deposits of organic energy out of the Earth and burn ____
4 전 세계 미디어 기관이 직면한 어려움
Media institutions across ____ globe are facing multiple crises: of funding, trust, representation, accountability and legitimacy.
In many of the countries that make up capitalism’s core, the newspaper and magazine industry is in ____ decline as large digital intermediaries take over the majority of advertising revenue.
Much of the debate about the sustainability of the news industry circulates around debates relating to this ‘broken business ____
Local news in particular is ____ under threat.
In the UK, the majority of the population (57.9%) is no longer ____ by a local daily newspaper.
To retain high levels of profitability, media ____ have closed or merged titles and cut jobs, often moving journalists long distances away from the communities they serve and no longer being able to provide content of relevance to them.
In short, a profit-driven response means media become ever more ____
5 인간이 개입한 자연환경
The complexity of human intervention in nature means that the ecosystems have had to adapt — or in many ____ die out.
Ancient woodland exists only in small ____ in Britain now.
Many of these remnants are enclosed in ____ reserves and national parks.
They need specific protection. New habitats have been created with ____ own ecosystems.
The urbanization of the landscape and the creation ____ road and railway corridors have given us the garden habitats that many species thrive in.
Motorway roadsides with higher salt deposits support salt-loving plants otherwise found along the ____
Roads provide abundant ____ for scavengers.
These may be poor substitutes for what they replace, but they are habitats that can add ____ if properly managed.
The natural environment we may seek to conserve is the natural environment ____ have in part created.
6 마음을 프로그램하는 주체들
For most ____ us, our minds have been programmed by a combination of factors — our friends, our parents, the mass media, and advertisers.
Some of these agents of programming truly know you and have your best interests in mind as they reinforce your special strengths and help you overcome your troublesome weaknesses; they are trying to make you happier and ____ your life better.
Other agents of programming are trying to use you as a tool to achieve their goals, which are ____ very different from your own goals.
When this occurs, the programming makes you less and less happy as they “help” you solve problems you don’t have and make worse the ____ you do have.
When you allow ____ to dominate the programming of your mind, then when your mind runs on automatic pilot, you end up behaving in ways that achieve the goals of those programmers rather than behaving in ways that would make you happier.
Therefore, it is important that you periodically examine the ____ that has been programmed into your mind.